GOD’S CALL TO CARE
Keswick Ministries
Date posted: 1 Aug 2018
This year’s theme, SENT is at the heart of what the Keswick Convention has long been about: mission.
Mission overseas and mission ‘right where you are’, a going out into the world sharing the good news of the gospel through word and deed. This year, visitors to the Keswick Convention will have the opportunity to take a peek into the world of mission and experience some of the many opportunities we have, as Christians, to reach out to the lost and suffering. For the first time ever, the Global Village Experience will be available at the Convention and will be hosted on the pencil factory site right next to the missions exhibition tent, Base Camp.
USA: walk out on Pence
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Date posted: 1 Aug 2018
In contrast to the UK prayer breakfast in
Parliament where the leaders of the nation
were called to listen to someone speak from
the Bible, the Southern Baptists took up the
request from Vice-President Mike Pence to
speak at their convention in mid-June.
In a piece
for The Gospel Coalition,
Jonathan Leeman wrote: ‘… having a political leader address our churches or associations of churches tempts us to misconstrue
our mission. Our mission is not the mission
of the Republican, Democratic or any other
party. Our mission, when gathered,
is to
work toward Great Commission ends. To
bring
in a politician risks subverting our gospel purposes to the purposes of that politician’s party. … it undermines our evangelistic and prophetic witness … it hurts the
unity of Christ’s body’. There would inevitably be divided political opinions in a church
over any individual or party.
Why GAFCON?
Chris Sugden and Vinay Samuel
Date posted: 1 Aug 2018
‘Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.’
The successful conclusion of GAFCON 2018, ten years after its formal beginnings as a global Anglican movement that had its roots in, among others, the Lambeth Conference of 1988 of which Archbishop Manasses Kuria of Kenya said: ‘This was our Lambeth’ and (then Bishop) David Gitari of Kenya said: ‘Anyone who wants a resolution passed in 1998 will have to come to terms with the African bishops.’
Turkey: still being held
World Watch Monitor / CNN
Date posted: 1 Aug 2018
The American Charge d’Affaires in Ankara
said in late June that Turkey’s continued
detention of Pastor Andrew Brunson on
spying and terrorism-related charges was
impeding US-Turkish relations.
Philip Kosnett said there is a ‘strong sense
of unity in Congress between Republicans
and Democrats’ on the need for Brunson
to be released. He continued that there is:
‘A similar sense of unity between Congress
and the administration that, in order for the
relationship between Turkey and the US
to progress, we need to resolve that status
not only
for Brunson but also
for other
American citizens and local Turkish employees of US missions who we feel are detained
unjustly under the state of emergency’.
news in brief
Egypt: naked aggression
Coptic houses were attacked in a village on 4 June, after Copts objected to a group of young Muslim men swimming naked in a canal in front of their homes as Coptic women sat outside.
A Muslim mob gathered around the homes of Christians across the canal and began pelting them with bricks and stones, while shouting ‘Allah is the greatest’ and chanting slogans against Copts. They broke the windows and doors of houses, and looted and destroyed some properties. Six people were injured, requiring stitches.